Friday, January 15, 2016

SERIOUSLY SPEAKING - BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY COUNT…

How many times have you heard someone -
yourself maybe? - say they just learned something new and followed it up with:

'I should have already known this!'

'Everyone else already does…'

'Why did it take me so long?'

'All those wasted years!'

Clearly, a pitfall of those 'aha!'
moments is the seemingly open invitation to our inner bully to jump on board.

Perhaps an explanation of the
emergence of that well meaning inner bully at times of potential transformation, is to protect us from the destabilization of our previous beliefs that new
learning can create?

"Carol's progress is steady. We feel she should practice control of her giggling." -4th Grade

Carol is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She's been doing this forever - and still loves it! How many other jobs allow you to listen to fascinating stories and help solve problems? Oh, yeah, I guess she could have been a detective (can't shoot, hates sneaking around and besides, they can't tell people what to do - oh, right, she doesn't either...)

Seriously Speakingwhat she enjoys most about her work is being part of a process of transformation and learning.